A 28-year-old inmate allegedly stabbed a supervising correctional officer in the head Monday at a prison in Lancaster. The assault occurred around 11:45 a.m. at California State Prison, Los Angeles ...

These are not isolated events; they happen because state officials in Mexico protect organized crime—not occasionally but ...

Axel Rudakubana, a Southport murderer, is currently serving a 52-year sentence at HMP Belmarsh, is receiving the legal ...

The Iowa Department of Corrections appointed Mark C. Foreman as warden of Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison.

The $825 million guaranteed maximum price for a 1,500-bed new men’s prison in South Dakota was in the ballpark, a consultant said at Tuesday’s Prison ...

Former prison officials are sounding the alarm about moving maximum custody inmates to close custody but the Arizona prisons ...

Officials say Stateville’s budget has stayed relatively level because of an increase in the population of a reception center ...

Minimum-security prisons: The lowest level of security in the federal system, they typically are used for those with less than ten years remaining on their sentences and those with non-violent ...

The “close security” facility — a level below ... inside and also a minimum-security unit on the outside of the main perimeter. It began as a territorial prison in 1853, before Minnesota ...

Triple murderer Axel Rudakubana is reportedly to be placed under one of the most extreme security regimes ... assault on a prison officer. The 18-year-old, jailed for a minimum of 52 years after ...

Rudakubana was jailed for a minimum of 52 years in January ... For weeks, I have warned about the safety of prison officers in some of our highest security prisons. “Just a few weeks ago ...